Word: skyscraperism
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Going up, up, up, Canadian taxes are still well below the skyscraper level of Britain's, stand at the moment about halfway between the proposed U.S. taxes for the coming year and the sub-confiscatory British levies.
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the...
Not all of Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city...
Ten years ago, when the Daily News moved into its shining skyscraper new home, observers noted a trend in Captain Patterson toward quasi-respectability. Said he: "The Daily News was built on legs, but when we got enough circulation we draped them." Momentarily his contrast with Colonel McCormick was modulated...
One fine day in the balmy summer of 1929 Secretary of War James William Good, seven Governors, a bevy of Congressmen, some foreign delegates and Sousa's Band turned up in Minneapolis for the dedication of the Foshay Tower-a 32-story skyscraper modeled after the Washington Monument. That...